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I've always missed is this X.org behaviour on OSX where you copy just by selecting text and past text by pressing the middle mouse button.
by FjordWarden 2y ago
I've always missed is this X.org behaviour on OSX where you copy just by selecting text and past text by pressing the middle mouse button.
- chuckadams 2y agoWhich makes it impossible to replace a selection by pasting. Also, except for terminals, it typically pastes at the pointer location, so you need precise aim (emacs thankfully lets you customize this, but UI toolkit widgets usually don’t)
- ropejumper 2y ago> Which makes it impossible to replace a selection by pasting. In principle this is false with a Plan9-like model of mouse chording. Holding left click over a selection and tapping middle click is a reasonable solution.
- FjordWarden 2y agoBut for those cases you just use cmd+v or whatever
- morsch 2y agoYeah, and I keep pasting the wrong thing because the terminal emulator tries to simulate the X behavior (which is very useful) but doesn't maintain a separate buffer like X does.